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Recap of 11/29/09:
1. Jacob’s gives his final instructions to his sons in Genesis 49:29-32. Once again he demonstrates his faith in God’s word and shows that his hope was in Canaan (the land God promised Abraham, Isaac, and him) not in Egypt by instructing his sons to bury him there not in Egypt.
2. In his book, The Man in the Mirror, Patrick Morley shares keys to no regret parenting:
-we must give our kids the freedom to be kids-don’t expect them to be perfect; don’t expect them to be miniature adults; adjust expectations to their age and maturity level.
-we must protect them from the world, but remember the goal is protection, not isolation. Rather than withdrawing from the world we must teach them to evaluate the culture around them with discriminating Biblical wisdom and with respect.
-we must encourage them and not embitter them. (Ephesians 6:4; Colossians 3:21)
-we must spend time with them, there is no replacement for our time, our children need our presence not just our presents, our greatest success will be our family, not our career, success at home doesn’t preclude success on the job.
-we must pray for them
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Finishing Well
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Recap of 11/15/09:
1. Jacob looks beyond the coming bondage in Egypt to the conquest and settlement of Canaan. With the guidance of the Holy Spirit, he evaluates each of his sons and their futures based on their character and decisions. His prophecies in Genesis 49 reach even to the Coming Messiah and His reign in the Millennium.
2. What becomes clear is that actions have consequences, even forgiven sin has practical consequences.
3. Out of adversity and out of suffering came victory and rest for Joseph and his tribe and extravagant blessing.
4. “So Jacob died after 147 years (47:28) of struggle; his sorrow came to an end. Infirmities, he had many; sins, not a few. But Jacob had an unquenchable desire for God’s blessing. He had a deep piety that habitually relied on God in spite of all else. In the end he died as a man of genuine faith. He learned in his life where the real blessings came from, and he fought with God and man to be privileged to hand them on to his sons.” (Dr. Allen Ross)
Recap of 11/15/09:
1. Jacob looks beyond the coming bondage in Egypt to the conquest and settlement of Canaan. With the guidance of the Holy Spirit, he evaluates each of his sons and their futures based on their character and decisions. His prophecies in Genesis 49 reach even to the Coming Messiah and His reign in the Millennium.
2. What becomes clear is that actions have consequences, even forgiven sin has practical consequences.
3. Out of adversity and out of suffering came victory and rest for Joseph and his tribe and extravagant blessing.
4. “So Jacob died after 147 years (47:28) of struggle; his sorrow came to an end. Infirmities, he had many; sins, not a few. But Jacob had an unquenchable desire for God’s blessing. He had a deep piety that habitually relied on God in spite of all else. In the end he died as a man of genuine faith. He learned in his life where the real blessings came from, and he fought with God and man to be privileged to hand them on to his sons.” (Dr. Allen Ross)
Monday, November 09, 2009
Last Words, Part 3
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Recap of 11/8/09:
1. “On Jacob’s tombstone, Joseph could have placed th words: ‘He worshipped.’ Years earlier, of course, ‘He deceived’ might have seemed more appropriate, but now that Jacob was almost a century-and-a –half old, he had come a long way with God. At the end of his life, one of his final acts was to worship the God he had both wrestled with and served.” (Chuck Swindoll)
2. In Jacob’s younger days he walked in the flesh (the sinful nature), now that he is older his spiritual growth is evident. He has become a man of faith.
3. Peter urges us Christians to “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). Growing spiritually, becoming spiritually mature, should be the natural state of the Christian man or woman.
4. A part of growing spiritually will be times of dryness/deadness in our spiritual walk (but if we persist God will bring times of refreshing and fruitfulness, Psalm 126:4-6); as well as times of suffering, that serve to “stamp out our personal ambitions” and “destroy our individual decisions by supernaturally transforming them,” according to Oswald Chambers.
Recap of 11/8/09:
1. “On Jacob’s tombstone, Joseph could have placed th words: ‘He worshipped.’ Years earlier, of course, ‘He deceived’ might have seemed more appropriate, but now that Jacob was almost a century-and-a –half old, he had come a long way with God. At the end of his life, one of his final acts was to worship the God he had both wrestled with and served.” (Chuck Swindoll)
2. In Jacob’s younger days he walked in the flesh (the sinful nature), now that he is older his spiritual growth is evident. He has become a man of faith.
3. Peter urges us Christians to “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). Growing spiritually, becoming spiritually mature, should be the natural state of the Christian man or woman.
4. A part of growing spiritually will be times of dryness/deadness in our spiritual walk (but if we persist God will bring times of refreshing and fruitfulness, Psalm 126:4-6); as well as times of suffering, that serve to “stamp out our personal ambitions” and “destroy our individual decisions by supernaturally transforming them,” according to Oswald Chambers.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Last Words, Part 2
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Recap of 11/1/09:
1. “Worship is the missing jewel of the evangelical church. The purpose of God in sending His Son to die and rise and live and be at the right hand of God the Father was that He might restore to us the missing jewel … of worship; that we might come back and learn to do again that which we were created to do in the first place—worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, to spend our time in awesome wonder and adoration of God, feeling and expressing it, and letting it get into our labors…” (A. W. Tozer)
2. Observations about worship:
-worship is not confined to a place or an action—it’s an attitude. (Malachi 1)
-you can’t worship while being disobedient to the Word of God (1 Samuel 15:1ff; 2 Samuel 6:1ff)
-worship should engage the mind not just the emotions (1 Corinthians 14:1-5)
3. Two key words for worship in the New Testament are:
-proskuneo, “to kiss, to fall down, to adore on one’s knees” An attitude of reverence, it’s found 24 times in the Book of Revelation in relation to God’s sovereignty, power, provision, etc.
-latreo, “ to serve, to worship” (Romans 12:1) Paul calls us to worship in response to what Jesus has done for us (Romans 1-11), then applies worship to the whole life (Romans 12-15).
Recap of 11/1/09:
1. “Worship is the missing jewel of the evangelical church. The purpose of God in sending His Son to die and rise and live and be at the right hand of God the Father was that He might restore to us the missing jewel … of worship; that we might come back and learn to do again that which we were created to do in the first place—worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, to spend our time in awesome wonder and adoration of God, feeling and expressing it, and letting it get into our labors…” (A. W. Tozer)
2. Observations about worship:
-worship is not confined to a place or an action—it’s an attitude. (Malachi 1)
-you can’t worship while being disobedient to the Word of God (1 Samuel 15:1ff; 2 Samuel 6:1ff)
-worship should engage the mind not just the emotions (1 Corinthians 14:1-5)
3. Two key words for worship in the New Testament are:
-proskuneo, “to kiss, to fall down, to adore on one’s knees” An attitude of reverence, it’s found 24 times in the Book of Revelation in relation to God’s sovereignty, power, provision, etc.
-latreo, “ to serve, to worship” (Romans 12:1) Paul calls us to worship in response to what Jesus has done for us (Romans 1-11), then applies worship to the whole life (Romans 12-15).
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